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I have just been nominated for a Versatile Blogger Award by dear, dear Giovanna, from bluejellybeans! She is Panamanian, living in Madrid, and her blog is bilingual and very gorgeous! Oh, Lord, the holiday recipes…the chocolate….Gracias, Giovanna.

I must confess, I am not sure exactly how these awards work, but I will give it a try.

I need to tell my readers seven things they probably don’t know about me and then nominate another 15 bloggers. If I do it wrong, I trust the blogosphere to correct and forgive!

My Seven Things

1. I am afraid of heights.

2. My favorite color is green.

3. I have not been able to drink gin since my first unfortunate encounter with it when I was 15 at Hither Hills Campgrounds. Well, I think it was Hither Hills. I think I was 15. I am sure it was gin. Anyway, you get the idea.

4. I don’t eat olives.

5. I have a strawberry birthmark on the top of my head.

6. I was the captain of Puerto Rico’s first National Team for women’s soccer and have three international caps.

7. I once had a delightful tapas dinner with Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne. Actually, he had just won his first Golden Globe – for Sideways – and would win the Oscar a couple of weeks later. He was married at the time and so I did not capitalize on the opportunity, for which my friends still think I am a complete idiot.

8. My friends are right.

(It was supposed to be Seven Things About Me, but a good Puerto Rican always throws in an extra, unexpected treat at the end: La Ñapa, we call it….Cajuns and Creoles will recognize it as lagniappe, and Americans as the 13th donut in a baker’s dozen)

Your job is to visit any of these blogs that seem interesting and let them know they’ve been nominated (by me!). And I guess we’ll see what happens after that! Thanks for playing this game!

And the nominees are….

1. Seasoned Fork (Chef Deborah Rivera Pittorino out of Long Island’s North Fork)

3 Responses to “My First Award! Please Play the Game….”

Dear Natalia, thanks for your words about me and my blog. I can’t believe this is your first award, because your blog is so so amazing!!
Me too had an “unfortunate encounter” but with whisky, in a Carnival many years ago.
Me ha gustado mucho saber algo nuevo de ti.
Saludos,
Giovanna

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